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Modest isn't the best nature for Altaria. It works fine as physical or mixed sweeper, but not purely special. Dragon Dance is the main support Altaria has to raise its average Attack and Speed. Replace Sing with Attract if it is female, or Thunder Wave.

Predictable moveset for Blaziken, it works fine. You have only two damage moves, both are STAB, and each one of them has a support. You can either attack foe's Defense or Special Defense (the one in more disadvantage).

You should replace Volt Tackle with Hidden Power if it was special type. If HP type were grass, water or ice, then you can cover Pikachu's weakness to ground.

I am not a fan of Azumarill, but I would replace Focus Punch with Body Slam. The paralyzing chance will make up for Azumarill's low speed.

Modest isn't the best nature for Altaria. It works fine as physical or mixed sweeper, but not purely special. Dragon Dance is the main support Altaria has to raise its average Attack and Speed. Replace Sing with Attract if it is female, or Thunder Wave.

Sorry about Smeargle... I don't know how to help you with it. It seems to personal for me. You can mount its moveset to whatever you like most. I personally don't like and never used Smeargle.

With Iron Head you need to teach it Double-Edge (replace Take Down with it). You do it right if you intend to substitute Mud-Slap with Earthquake.

Predictable moveset for Blaziken, it works fine. You have only two damage moves, both are STAB, and each one of them has a support. You can either attack foe's Defense or Special Defense (the one in more disadvantage).

Pikachu: I'll check what type the Hidden Power is.

Azumarill: Hmmm Body Slam might be good. I'll research (I always do)

Altaria: It's a mixed sweeper. Dragon dance to boost Fly and Modest for Dragonbreath (I actually caught and used the first one I found. I wasn't looking for the perfect one)

Smeargle: Don't worry about him

Lairon: Double Edge is perfect

Blaziken: I might do the crit moveset but I don't have scope lens (yet).

Don't bring Pikachu to the Pyramid. The Pyramid doesn't allow you to bring your own items, and without Light Ball, Pikachu is just an extremely fragile pokémon with zero offence and will add pretty much nothing to your team. In fact, I'd say Pikachu is too slow and fragile for the entire Battle Frontier if you want to go far. Slow pokémon can be good, but they have to be able to take hits before dishing them out and Pikachu dies to any STAB move from fully evolved pokémon. Even with Light Ball its offences are very good but Pikachu won't be OHKOing things that it doesn't hit super-effectively, at best 2KOing, and Pika just doesn't have impressive super effective coverage. There are simply too much pokémon that beat Pikachu one-on-one easily for it to be a good choice.

Pikachu is the worst of your team, but in fact every one of them is sub-par for Frontier purposes. You need to use strong pokémon, yours are UU or even NU in competitive terms for a reason, and that reason is that they are outclassed by better ones. Altaria is not nearly as good as Salamence, Aggron is not nearly as good as Metagross, Azumarill doesn't get a good synergy between special STAB and Huge Power, Smeargle has terrible stats and should only be used for niche uses (like Baton Passing Ingrain), and Blaziken can work but is quite fragile and slow.